The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE commencement of the Great
North Sea and Baltic canal has been fixed for
June g. and it is expected that the ceremony
will be attended by the Emperor, the Crown
Prince Prince Bismarck and crowd OF German
sovereigns.
DURING the last eighteen years 81 ,25S seamen.
fishermen and bargemen, besides numbers Of
their families have taken the pledge of total
abstinence members of the Mission to Sea
men branch of the Church of England Temper
ancc Society.
TIE Duke of Rutland will not allow gas any
where in Belvoir Castle, his ancestral seat
Lamps are used all over the immense building,
and a servant who has spent fifty years in the
ducal service occupies his whole time Ill ttlllng
the bowls and trimming the wlcks.
THERE is q curious law in vogue in Switzer-
land which compels every newly-married couple
to plant trees shortly after the marriage cere-
mony. The trees ordered to be planted on we'd
ding days are the pine and weeping willow,
but on natal days the suggestive birch tree is
selected.
THE real estate business in New York is pros
porous. While rentals have been firm, the sales
of property have all been made at higher figures
than for many years past. The greatest rise in
values have been in down town property in the
neighborhood of Wall street and the commercial
exchanges.
Miss DELLA HUBBEIL, of Greenfield HILL near
Bridgeport, Conn, was knocked down Tuesday
by neighbours trespassing ram. One of her
knees was dislocated co Isin, a young girl,
rushed to her assistance and managed to tie her
sunbonnet over the rams head. Whether from
modification over the headgear or from inJur-
les resulting i'll his contortionS to remove the
| bonnet, the ram died.
GOLD is beaten to one three -hundred-thous-
andth of an inch thick at five grains to the block.
If it gets down TO four grains it is one three
hundred-and-sixty -thousandths of an inch. The
| German system employs children of or 8,
which system Hastings, of Philadelphia, tried to
| introduce in New York, but his workmen struck.
| On that system men do the beating and girls do
| the printing and filling.
THE Mercantile Library in New York city is
| practically owned and entirely managed by
clerks. In order to vote or hold office member
must be clerk working on salary in some me
mercantile office. The library contains 217 900
| volumes, making it the fifth largest in the
| country. First comes the Congressional at
| Washington, second the Boston public library,
| third the Harvard University and fourth the
| Aston
| A TwoTHIRDSGRowN LION passed through the
country two and half miles south of Dexter,
| Mo-, a day or so ago. 1t was seen by several
persons and heard roaring by others. So far as
| heard from it molested nothing but kept on its
| course westward. 1t has, ;e that time, been
| heard of again several miles southwest sof DeX-
| ter. Where it came from is a mystery, as there
| has been no menagerie through that section
| recently.
THE little granddaughter of Mrs. Mary A.
| Livermore, says the Youths Companion, dis
| likes to be made to mind. One Sunday, after
some outbreak, her father got down the Bible
| and showed her the text: Children obey your
| parents She looked disconnected, but went on
reoding the chapter, while her father went up
| stairs Presently she pursued him, Bible in
hand calling eagerly: Papa! papa! 1t says
some more. 1t says: Parents, provoke not
| your children to wrath and that is what you
| do to me every day."
A REMARKABLY effective shot was fired last
week on the Kentucky side Of the Ohio river,
opposite New Richmond, o.. after one white
and two negro convicts, in a conspiracy to
escape, had disabled their overseer by a blow
| with spade. The one guard near the scene
ran, met the retreating convicts, fred one load
of buckshot at them and brought every one of
| them down. The white man had two balls
| through the lungs, and one negro had two balls
| through his head, while the second negro was
| the only one of the three not MORALLY wounded
| The other negro died on the spot.
THE ups and downs of newspaper men las
| well as other mem entertaining. On the
| same day the Hartford COurdnt got very diff
| ferent news from two ex-members of its staff.
| One telegram, cable, pictured Mr.. Penfeld, up
| to '65 the COuront's city editor, as crack whip
| driving a fourth hand filed with fashionable
| Americans from the Metropole Hotel London,
| out to EPSON Downs to see the Derby The
| other told the story of one lawson formerly an
| editorial writer on the COuront who had been
| bluffed in an attempt to commit bigamy. Law
| son naturally was much the brighter man.
CORRESPONDENT of the st. Louis Globe
| Democrat, writing from the City of Mexico,
| thus speaks of the local hotels: 'They are
| about as different from those of the States as
| two things designed for like uses can well be.
| Here all inns front, not upon the street, but
| upon an interior court. The outside, with its
| barred windows, looks like a stone jail The
| office faces upon the court, the rooms open upon
| balconies which overhang the court. There is
| one passage TO the street, and there the porter
| has his little room and keeps out intruders.
| This court is always paved and clean. Some
| times there are potted plants, fiower-beds, set
| tees and not unfrequently there are tables on
| which the meals are served. What would be
the area in the States is here the choice, select
| part of the hotel"
AMONG the birthday greetings received this
year bv the German Emperor was the following
| from boy living at Stahm, Prussia: Dear
| King-On thy great birthday thy subject offers
| most obedent congratulations with the PRAYER
10 the good God that thou mayst long be our
good King. And now beg you to be so kind as
| to send my poor fatner-who has been an in
| valid since the war with Austria, having been
| shot in the foot-something from the war fund,
| have two brothers and two sisters and often
we have no bread to eat |, like my brother,
mean to be a soldier, and then will fight the
| enemy. My dear mother has long been sick
| And now / greet you, dear Emperor and send
| you my name-August Wolk, 10 years old ="
| The Emperor was much affected by this appeal
| and directed the War Minister to take the case
| in hand.
THERE is a sink hole on the line of the
| Carthage and Adirondack railroad into which,
it is said have been dumped ten acres of timber
| and innumerable loads of stone, the effect
| of which has not been apparent, the hole being
| as bad as when first discovered. The sink hole
| is IT'S feet long, situated between Harrisville
| and Jayville and where the track runs between
| two chains of hills, making the changing of the
| road bed impossible. The Carthage and Adron-
| dack railroad people have long had trouble with
| it, and for some time past have been endeavor-
| ing TO fill up the hole. IL appeared to be per-
| fectly safe last Wednesday, and three cars
! loaded with gravel were pushed over the hole
| and unloaded, when they sank swiftly in IS
| feet of water, one of the men on them narrowly
| escaping drowning. About 900 car loads of
| gravel and stone, together with a vast amount
| of rubbish, has been deposited in the hole.
| PAYMAsTER STEVENSON once found himself in
| company with man who was monomaniac
on the subject of the rights of the red man, and
| the paymaster told him this story: "Once there
| was an Indian. He borrowed $40 of trapper
Bill Smith. After three weeks the Indian came
| in and paid the debt. He then called for re-
| ceipt. 4 like that said the trapper. 4 had no
| note when | lent you the money. Ihave the
money now. We are back where we started.